GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? Even if the cancer gets cured, they’re not going to become their buprenorphine prescriber, the palliative care consultant. So, I don’t think we should have these silos. What is it called?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

What happened is that firstly, in terms of my clinical background, my background is psycho-oncology, so that’s working with patients with cancer and their families, including when they’re going through periods. So being well and also potentially periods of dying. But that was separate from MAID. You’re on mute, Bill.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

So in those cases, can we adopt an approach to mental health care that centers primarily around quality of life of patients and their families? Eric 12:11 And we consult psychiatry. And I’ll say we were clinically at the VA doing inpatient palliative care consults. We do not have a psychiatrist, but we have consultants.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 10:53 Yeah, or like palliative care if they get a consult for whatever reason, but not trn consult, like standardized, you know, randomized to palliative care versus whatever they’re doing before. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. This is Eric Widera. If they don’t, they don’t.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

This podcast was initially sparked by Josh’s “Note From a Family Meeting” Substack post titled “ Ambivalence in Clinical Decision-Making ,” which discussed Bryanna’s and Jenny’s 2022 article titled “ Two Minds, One Patient: Clearing up Confusion About Ambivalence.” So this, I think we had three or four consults. Is that right?

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

I remember walking through San Francisco Airport with Bob, we just happened to be there at similar times, and saying, “Eric and I are thinking about starting a blog.” Alex: Yeah, we talk a lot about de-skilling in geriatrics and palliative care, because so much of what we do is a consultant role. ” Alex: Wow.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. It’s all stemmed from a post that Josh wrote, I’ll caught from his Substack Notes from a Family Meeting. So this, I think we had three or four consults. Josh, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For example, is reluctance to take on more responsibility at work or relocate because you feel inadequate or is it because of genuine concern about the impact on your family? I think we’re really good at that as palliative care doctors when we’re dealing with families. You need to be different.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

You basically don’t even ask the family, you just stop the bleeding. Are you encountering family members who are just, like, at a loss for what to do and tortured it? Patients who are sort of estranged from family members who then have to make these decisions for somebody that they don’t really know.

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